Artist Katie Kretz currently has an exhibition of her unusual embroidery work at Hardcore Art in Miami. The image above is a detail of a work called “The Final Word,” and consists of thousands of french knots on black velvet. Check out the photostream of the exhibition, which runs through June 2nd, on flickr.
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